What the Standard Model Does Not Answer and What the G2 Framework Does: A Scorecard

The Standard Model is the most precisely tested theory in physics, yet it leaves a dozen fundamental questions unanswered, from the number of generations to the value of the cosmological constant. We assess, honestly and in one place, how the G2 framework stands against each. Of twelve long-standing puzzles, the framework resolves seven structurally — the three generations, charge quantisation, the gauge group, the mass hierarchy, the neutrino sector, strong-CP, and the cosmological constant; provides a mechanism or candidate for two more — the matter-antimatter asymmetry and dark matter; upgrades two — the dimension of spacetime, from accident to a structural candidate, and quantum gravity, from open to a substantiated structural position with a category-error diagnosis and a constraint locking gravity to gauge; and leaves one genuinely open — the absolute scale hierarchy — which we have argued elsewhere is irreducible to a structure-first theory. We present the scorecard not as a claim of completeness but as a map: a single algebraic structure addresses a remarkable breadth of independent questions, and the questions it cannot answer fall into one identifiable class, the absolute scales, which a structure-first theory cannot reach. The value of the framework is argued to lie in this breadth together with this honesty.